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PROJECT 



FOR A 



National Monument 



TO THE 



Women of the Civil War. 



WITH 



SPEECH OF THE HON. JAMES M. BECK, 

Delivered at the Banquet of 

the Loyal Legion, New York, 

October 4th, 1911. 



Military Order of the Loyal Legion 

of the United States 

COMMANDERY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK 

Headquarters, No. 140 Nassau Street, 

NEW YORK. N. Y. 



h Project for A National Monument 






to the 
Women of the Civil War. 

unanimously approved at a business meeting of the 
COMMANDEKY OF THE STxVTE OF NEW YORK 
of the MILITARY OKDEK OF THE LOYAL 
LEGION OF THE UNITED 8TATES, held at Del- 
monico's, New Y^ork, October 4th, 1911, and, by it, 
referred to the COMMANDERY-IN-CHIEF, at its 
session in Philadelphia, October 18th, 1911, and as 
there amended and again ratified by the NEW Y'OKK 
COMMANDERY', October 30th, 1911. 



i^esiolution. 



as originally adopted at a business meeting of 
the COMMANDERY OF THE STATE OF 
NEW YORK of the [MILITARY ORDER OF 
THE LOYAL LEGION OF THE UNITED 
STATES, held at Delmonico's, New York, Octo- 
ber 4th, 1911, and amended October 30th, 1911, 
in accordance with a Resolution of the COM- 
MANDERY'-IN-CHIEF, at its meeting in Phila- 
delphia, October 18th, 1911. 

Wlicrcas, a member of the Commandery of 
the State of New York has proposed the raising 
of a fund of Five hundred thousand dollars to 
l»uild a National Monument in the City of Wash- 
ington to the Memory of the Noble Women, who, 
in the Civil War, as loyal mothers and wives so 
freely offered their dear ones on the altar of their 
(ountry that the Union might be preserved, and 
who so hei-uically devoted themselves to our sick 
and wounded soldiers on the battlefields and in 
the hospitals, and 



^\'/lcrc(tsJ the said lueinbei' lias giianiiiteed 
a subscription of Fifty thousand dollars upon 
tlic ((nidition that the sum of Three hundred 
tiioHsand dollars be raised within one year from 
date, and 

Whereas, the Comniandery of the State of 
New York does heartily concur in the said pro- 
posal, 

Therefore^ he it resolved, that a special Com- 
mittee on Ways and Means consisting of 

MAJOR-GENERAL FREDERICK D. GRANT 

GENERAL THOMAS H. HUBBARD 

GENERAL J. FRED PIERSON 

MAJOR J. LANGDON WARD 

CAPT. JAMES A. SCRYMSER 

LIEUT. LOYALL FARRAGUT 

FIRST LIEUT. THOMAS STURGIS 

be, and is hereby, appointed to do all things 
necessary to further the project for this monu- 
ment, and 

Be it further resolved, that a" copy of these 
Resolutions be forwarded to the Commandery- 
in-chief and the other Commanderies of this Or- 
der, to the Commander-in-chief of the Grand 
Army of the Republic, to the President of the 
^Voman's Relief Corps of the Grand Army of the 
Repnblic, to the President of the Ladies of the 
Grand Army of the Republic and to all kindred 
associations, together with the Pension Bureau 
at Washington, all soldiers homes and all vet- 
erans and other patriotic men and women of 
America, with a request that they co-operate with 
the Comniandery of the State of New York, in 
collecting the funds and forwarding the objects 
set forth in these Resolutions, and 

Be it further resolved, that the Command- 
ory-in-r'hief, at its annnal meeting to be held in 
Philadelphia on October 18th, 1911, be requested 



to endorse this i)i-oj('c1 iind i-cconmKMul it to tlic 
twenty-one State ( 'omniandeties, tlins J,'iviuj5 to 
the i)roject impetus and publicity, to the end 
tliat such a monument shall 1»* huift and the lonj,^ 
delayed debt of i>:ratitiide be paid to the memory 
of those noble women of the Civil War, and their 
deeds of sacriace and valor be thus peri)etuated, 
and 

Bv it further rcsolnd, that communications 
and also all contributions be forwarded to the 
Secretary and Treasurer by check or postal 
money order stating that the same is to be cred- 
ited to the fund for a National Monument to the 
>yomen of the (Mvil War by which name and 
title the said fund is to be known. 



JAMES A. SCRYMSER, 

Chairman of Committee on Wai/s and 

Means, 

Commander)! (>f the Rtate of Xen- York. 

Secret a r If and Treasnrer, 
A. NOEL BLAKEMAN, 

Recorder. MUitarij Order of the 

Loyal Lef/ion Xeir York Comma ndenj. 

140 Nassau Street, New York. 

Connsri: TTon. JAMES ^1. RECK 

Depository: UNION TRUST COMPANY, N. Y. 



At the Banquet of the Commander}', held 
the same evening at Delmonico's, the Resolution 
was read and enthusiastically received. Follow- 
ing the reading. General Edward Ripley, who 
presided at the banquet, offered a toast, 

''To the Memory of the Nohle Women of the 
Civil War" and the toast was pledged in 
silence. 

The response to the toast was given by the 
Hon. James M. Beck, whose eloquent address is 
printed in full herewith. 



The American "Women 

in the Civil War. 

Address of James M. Beck, formerly Assistant 
Attorney General of the United States, in response to 
a toast at the dinner of the New York Commandery of 
the Loyal Legion, Ncav York City, October 4, 1911. 

Mr. President and Gentlemen : 

In responding to this toast of gracious memory, 
I can only regret that some one has not been selected 
who could dwell upon so inspiring a theme as the 
patriotic work of the American woman in the Civil 
War, with a fervor born of actual experience. I did 
not, however, feel at liberty to decline your invitation 
to advocate the erection of the proposed memorial at 
Washington, for your Commandery recently did me 
the great honor to elect me to its membership and I 
could not decline its first call to service, especially as 
it gives me this opportunity to express my grateful 
acknowledgment of the honor thus done me. 



Ill ailvocatiiig the proposed iiipiiioi-ial, my only 
regret is that I cannot rise "to the lieight of the great 
argnment." Fortunately, it needs no advocate. The 
cause speaks for itself. 

This project is one of singular nobility and 
beauty. In many ways it is unicjue. Notwithstanding 
the rhapsodies of poets and artists with respect to 
woman, it remains a fact that few memorials, erected 
to perpetuate the memory of great achievements and 
liersonalities, record the heroism, self-sacrifice and 
patriotism of woman. 

This deficiency is onh' true of that commemora- 
tive Art, which seeks to record the verdicts of history. 
The chisel and the brush have ever found in woman 
an inspiring subject, when the motive for expression 
was purely aesthetic. The literature of the ages has 
also embodied the chivalrous admiration which all 
noble men have for women. In all Greek literature, 
what figure more noble than Antigone, while the 
most inspired poem of the Christian era had for its 
inspiration the sainted Beatrice, under whose gentle 
guidance the great Florentine ascended in his exalted 
imagination from the depths of Hell to the loftiest 
regions of Paradise. 

These, however, are poetical abstractions, gracious 
expressions of a spirit of undying chivalry. It re- 
mains true that the concrete achievements of women 
have had scant recognition. We look almost in vain 
for any memorial which records her sacrifice and 
patriotism. 

There are in England statues to Elizabeth, Anne 
and Victoria, but in this as in other countries, where 
the achievements of women are recorded in bronze 
or marble, it is the ruler, whose reign and deeds 
are generally commemorated. France indeed, with 
characteristic idealism, has commemorated in many 
noble memorials the marvellous and indeed almost 
miraculous achievements of her Joan of Arc, while 
(iermany has not failed to i-emember the pathetic mis- 
fortunes of her Queen Louise. 



The noblest memorial erected to the memory of 
a woman as a woman will not he found in Christen- 
dom, but in the Orient and was erected not b}' a 
civilized Nation but by an Indian ruler. I refer to 
that which many believe to be the most beautiful 
memorial in the world, the Taj Mahal in India, 
erected by an Oriental potentate to the memory of 
a beloved wife and which stands to-day in imperish- 
able beauty as one of the wonders of the world. 

We utilize the gracious outward form of woman 
to symbolize the highest attributes and the noblest 
ideals of man. The winged figure of victory — the 
Nike of Samothrace — symbolizes the triumphant des- 
tiny of a race, as the best Greek sculpture spoke 
of the wisdom of the "city of the violet crown," as 
typified in the figure of Minerva, Love — sacred and 
profane — has been symbolized many thousand times 
in stately churches, noble temples and inspiring 
elfigies, but how rare is any memorial to any concrete 
achievement of a woman? The achievements and 
heroism of men in war have been the inspiring theme 
of countless memorials, but few can be recalled that 
similarly record the self-sacrifice of women in times 
of conflict. And yet woman has been, from the very 
dawn of history, the chief victim of war, the solace of 
disaster, the gentle consoler of affliction, the mother 
of heroes, the inspirer of victory. 

Commemorative art has its serioas purpose and 
solemn obligations. The Greeks had so fine a sense 
of its proprieties that they condemned Phidias to 
prison because he had furtiveh^ chiseled images of 
himself and Pericles on the shield of Minerva. 

This tradition suggests a great truth. A perma- 
nent memorial constitutes not merely a verdict upon 
the past but a challenge to the future. It seeks 
to project the beliefs and emotions of a generation 
beyond the gulf of years into that unknown and illim- 
itable future, down whose infinite vista we turn an 
eager but darkened vision. It asserts our belief that 
the thing that we commemorate is of such undying 
interest that it will not "fade like streaks of morning 



cloud into tlic infinite azure of llic ])ast." Such 
memorials are the letters of u j^rcat lau<^uaj;i*, l>y 
which one ajj^e tells to auctthcr its decpi'st fcclinus, 
its j»reatest passions, its highest hoju's, its uoMcst 
deeds. Such appeal of the livin^j^ to th«' unlioiii is 
either an act of sublime justice or it is presumptuous 
folh'. If the latter, its worst vice is that it flatters 
and therefore shames the dead. 

This thought is deeply impressed ou any one who 
walks through Westminster Abbey. There are found 
among many noble and deserved memorials, monu- 
ments to men and achievements of such ej)heuu'ral im- 
portance, as to shock our sense of propi-iety, remind- 
ing us of Edmund Burke's sad exclamation to the 
electors of Bristol — " What shadows we are and what 
shadows we pursue !" 

The very word "statue" signifies the "immoAal le'' 
thing, and therefore should only symbolize that which 
is in its lasting nobility and permanent infinence im- 
movable. Indeed the words "state" and "statue" have 
a common origin and the history of the one can often 
be read in the other, in the case of any nation which 
respects its past. A French child can read the his- 
tory of his country in its memorials and the inseiip- 
tion over the Pantheon in Paris evinces the undying 
spirit of this great people. 

We need not fear the verdict of the future as 
to what we now plan to do. There are many mem- 
orials to the deathless valor of the brave men, who in 
the four years from 1861 to 1865, responded to the 
call of their country and in many cases laid down 
their lives for its preservation; but not less worthy 
of connnemorative art is the equal patriotism of the 
women of America, who as truly threw their hearts 
into the great struggle for the Union, and who freely 
gave their lives at the no less dangcMous posts of duty 
of the fever stricken camps, which followiMl with the 
scythe of Death the march of our mighty armies. 

The women of America had reason to throw 
their hearts and 8>onls into the great struggle, for 
the .supreme issue upon which it was fought was 



one of exalted morality, appealing as few wars have 
ever done to the noblest emotions of women. 

When war in other ages meant the preservation 
of a race or community, when victory was followed 
by spoliation, rapine, massacre and other outrages, 
women have taken active part in every conflict from 
the instinct of self-preservation. As advancing civil- 
ization has ended this awful aftermath of battle, 
women have had little heart in any war due merely 
to economic causes or the desire for territorial ag- 
grandizement. The cause of a war must be of sublime 
unselfishness to reconcile the gentle heart of a woman 
to the multiplied destruction of a modern battlefield. 

The Civil War had a peculiar appeal to the con- 
science of women. It was not only that the preserva- 
tion of the Union was at stake, but that a supreme 
issue of human freedom, due in no small part to the 
tender sympathies of woman, had precipitated a 
struggle which involved the right of the slave mother 
to the child of her breast. Freely conceding that the 
causes that led up to the Civil War were complex 
in character, in some instances involving economic 
rather than moral questions, yet a controlling motive 
of the great conflict was the question of slavery, and in 
that issue the women of America had a deeper inter- 
est than the men, and possibly did more to bring it 
home to the hearts and consciences of the American 
people. 

Among the causes of the great conflict Harriet 
Beecher Stowe's pen was not secondary in importance 
to the Dred Scott decision or John Brown's raid, 
while the loyal people of the North kept step to the 
music of the Union to the immortal lines of Julia 
Ward Howe's Battle Hymn of the Kepublic. 

The women of America freely gave not only their 
fathers, brothers, husbands and sons, but many of 
them threw themselves into the conflict as army 
nurses and endured perils and suffered hardships that 
were little less than those sustained by the soldiers 
on the firing line. 



Such lofty patriotism has always characterized 
the American women. The women of the Revolution, 
witli whom Bui-goyiie had boasted before leaving Eng- 
land that he would dance, and with a pitiful minority 
of whom the soldiers of Howe did dance in the Mes- 
chianza, contributed not merely the product of their 
nimble fingers, but also that which was dearest to 
them. Said one of them to her husband, in the spirit 
of a Roman matron : 

^'Remember, Sidney, that I would rather hear 
that you were left a corpse on the field than that you 
were a coward." 

To which her Lovelace could have replied in those 
lovely words which eml)ody the chivalry of our race: 
"I could not love thee, dear, so much 
Loved I not honor more." 

To that Philadelphia Woman's Committee, 
which, headed by Esther Reed, had helped to clothe 
his ragged Continentals, Washington, with true Vir- 
ginian gallantry, wrote: 

"The Army ought not to regret its sacrifices or 
its sufferings when they meet with so flattering 
a reward as in the sympathy of your sex, nor can 
it fear that its interests will be neglected when 
espoused by advocates as powerful as they are 
amiable.-' 

Such spirit characterized the women of America 
in the dark days of 1861-1865, times that truly tried 
as with fire women's souls as well as those of men. 
How many, like Andromache "smiling through 
hei' tears,'' said to those they loved best: "If you 
think it your duty to go, you should go.'* Lincoln's 
beautiful letter, written in 1863 to the mother who 
sacrificed her five sons on the altar of her country, 
simply speaks of one of many thousands who heroi- 
cally bade their sons, many of them on the very thres- 
hold of manhood, to go forth to probable death to save 
the ITnion. 

When the memorial is erectcMl, could we do better 
than inscribe upon it as its moving spirit, those beau- 
tiful words of Lincoln in the letter just referred to: 



"I feel how weak and fruitless must be any 
words of mine which should attempt to beguile you 
from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I 
cannot refrain from tendering to you the consiola- 
tion that may be found in the thanks of the Repub- 
lic they died to save, I pray that our Heavenly 
Father may assuage the anguish of your bereave- 
ment, and leave you only the cherished memory of 
the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must 
be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the 
altar of freedom." 

Our American civilization has always taken just 
pride in the gracious type of refined, cultivated and 
ennobled womanhood, and while modesty has ever 
been its distinctive charm, yet the women of America 
have never at any crisis of their country hesitated 
to give up their gentle retirement, if thereby they 
could in any manner advance a good cause or alleviate 
human suffering. They have ever shown the spirit of 
the noblest Greek heroine, Antigone, the devoted 
daughter and sister, who gave her own life that the 
body of her slain brother might have the honored rites 
of sepulture. Could he, who may hereafter design this 
memorial, do better than give concrete expression to 
the figure of Antigone, thus identifying the Greek 
maiden with her sisters of later ages and joining in 
the bonds of heroism the noblest heroine of the epic 
period of Greece with those of the latest and noblest 
Republic of all time. 

In the Civil War, the patriotic co-operation of 
American women reached a high water mark never 
attained before and possibly never to be attained 
again. 

Every little community had its organization to 
help the men in the front, great enterprises were 
undertaken in the leading cities to raise fiinds for 
the Sanitary Commissions, depots were maintained, 
through which the soldier passing fi-om his Northern 
home to Southern battlefields, could get food and 
raiment and that helpful encouragement which is 

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greater than both. Never did our women better justi- 
fy thoir nj^ht to the title "lad^V' that meaning origin- 
ally the "bread giver." 

Thousands, under the inspiring leadership of 
CMai-c Jiarton, — a name justly to be rankcil with those 
of Florence Nightingale and Grace Darling, — went to 
the front, were present at the awful struggles in 
the Peninsular campaign, in those of Vicksburg, 
I^ookout Mountain, Chickamauga and of the Wilder- 
ness, received the wounded soldiers as thej' were 
borne from the battlefield, nursed them to convales- 
ence in the fever stricken camps and, if need were, 
took tlieir last messages, wiped the death sweat from 
their broAvs and closed their eyes in the last sleep. 

Only "He who counteth all our sorrows" can ever 
measure the good that they did and the sorrow which 
they relieved. Many perished in the typhus-ridden 
camps and hospitals and were as truly sacred martyrs 
of the conflict as the soldiers who fell beneath shot 
and shell. These, too, should be counted as worthy 
comrades in that ghostly army of which the Abbe 
Perreyve wrote: "L'nseen by the corporal eyes, but 
too clearly visible to the mind's eye, the great army 
of the dead, the army of the slain, the abandoned, 
the forgotten, the army of cruel tortures and pix)- 
lotiged infirmities, which pursues its fatal march 
behind what we call glory." 

To tell the beadroll of such heroism would 1m' 
impossible, for in this, as in every similar crisis, 
thousands suffered and died whose very names are 
forgf)tten. 

A grateful country recalls the name of Dorothea 
L. Dix, Clara Harlowe Barton, Helen Louise Gilson, 
Eliza C. Porter, Mary A. Bickerdyke, ^largaret Eliza- 
beth Breckinridge, Amy M. BradU\v, Arabella (Jrif- 
fith Barlow, Nellie Maria Taylor, Adeline Couzins, 
the Woolseys, Schuylers, Primes and many others. 

^'Last at the Cross and earliest at the grave," 
could be written of these women as truly as of those 
holy women, who remained loyal in the Supreme 



Tragedv 



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Said one of those brave ^vomen, on board a 
sieamei- lU'ar \'ic-ksbni'<i', dnrinj;' the fearful sie^e of 
that city, Avhen tohl that she was goino- beyond her 
strenjjjth and would die if not more prudent: 

"What if I do? Shall men come here by tens 
of thousands and tight and suffer and die and shall 
not some women be willing to die to sustain and 
succor them?" 

Who can forget the inspiring example of Clara 
I>arton, who three days after Fort Sumter had 
fallen, went to Washington to receive the first 
wounded as they came from Baltimore in April, 1861, 
and who from that time to the close of the w^ar and 
afterwards to her latest breath gave her life to the re- 
lief of human suffering, whether such suffering came 
from war or from disaster through hurricane, epi- 
demic or otherwise? More than once women, like Mrs. 
I\icketts and Mrs. Barlow, — each the Avife of a Major- 
General — passed between the lines of embattled 
armies in the very midst of the conflict, that they 
might nurse a husband, relative, or friend in the 
enemy's lines. 

No service seemed too menial or dangerous for 
these brave women and of one of them a private in 
the Sixteenth New^ York Regiment wrote in simple but 
impressive lines on the Chickahominy in 1862: 

''To one borne from the sullen battle's roar, 
Dearer the greeting of th}^ gentle eyes, 
W^hen he a-w^ary, torn and bleeding lies. 
Than all the glory that the victors prize. 

When peace shall come and homes shall smile again, 
A thousand soldier hearts, in Northern climes, 
Shall tell their little children in their rhymes 
Of the sweet saints who blessed tlie old war times." 

To record all the acts of heroism and self-sacri- 
fice, the tender sayings and the sweet benedictions 
of these women would require a volume, and if all 

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could be thus recorded for the grateful adiiiiialiou 
of posterity, the Recording Angel would have no 
occasion to blot it out forever with a geiilh' teai-, but 
rather seal it for perpetual reiueuibrauce with a 
divine benediction. 

Let one instance speak for all, and I select it 
simply because the present project owes nuuh of 
its inspiration to the sacred memory of this woman. 

On the outbreak of the war, Arabella (Irittlth. a 
young and lovely woman of no inconsiderable in- 
tellectual attainments and of assured social standing, 
was engaged to a young lawyer, who has since passed 
into history as Major-General Francis C. Barlow. 

On the 19th of April, 18G1, Barlow enlisted as a 
private in the Twelfth Regiment of the New York 
Militia and on the day before his regiment left for 
AVashington the young couple Avere married. The 
next day they parted. Mrs. Barlow left the comfort 
and retirement of her home, joined the Sanitary Com- 
mission and reached Harrison's Landing on the 2nd 
of July, 1862. Death had reaped a great harvest and 
thousands of wounded and dying men were arriving. 
To the relief of this multiplied suffering Mrs. Barlow 
gave every energy of mind and body. 

While nursing in the field hospital at Antietam, 
her husband, severely wounded, was brought in on a 
stretcher. How grateful it must have been to him, 
when he first opened his eyes in the rude surroun<l- 
ings of the field hospital, to find his young wife lean- 
ing over him, stanching his wounds, and caring for 
him with the gentle ministrations of an Angel of 
Mercy. 

She nursed him back to convalescence and the 
field of Gettysburg again found him desperately 
wounded within the Confederate lines. ^N'ben woiil 
of Barlow's wounds and, as it was supposed, dying 
condition reached the Union lines, Mrs. Barlow 
applied to General Hancock for leave to cross the 
lines, but important strategical conditions com- 
pelled the General to decline to open neg«itiations 

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with the Confederates to effect this transfer under a 
flag of truce. 

Taking her life into her hands, she crept to the 
picket lines and, under the cover of night, made a dash 
across the open space that separated the opposing 
armies at that point. She was fired upon by the 
pickets of both armies, but escaped unscathed. 

Again she nursed her husband to health and the 
spring of 1864 found her in the Wilderness, and later 
in the trenches before Petersburg, where her tireless 
energy in organizing the work of relief brought com- 
fort and aid to many wounded soldiers. Through 
these times which "•truly tried mens' souls", she la- 
bored unceasingly and, although her health sioon 
showed manifest evidence of breaking doAvn, she paid 
no attention to the warnings of friends. Finally at 
the very end of the war, — her noble work nobly ended 
— that dreadful fever, which is the scourge of camps 
anl which slew more in the Civil War than did the 
Confederate artillery, struck her down. 

She returned to Washington only to receive the 
crown of martyrdom. Cn July 27th, 1864, Mrs. Bar- 
low died in the City of Washington, as truly a martyr 
to the great cause as any soldier in the ranks who 
died on the firing line. 

On his dying bed years later, Barlow expressed 
to the member of this Commandery, who has initiated 
this noble project, his confident prediction that the 
day would come when a grateful country would erect 
a nolde memorial to the heroism and self-sacrifice of 
sucli women as Arabella Barlow. To Companion 
James A. Scrymser, the friend of Barlow, this Com- 
mandery and the Loyal Legion, owe a debt, for his 
suggestion gives to the Nation an opportunity to pay 
in fitting manner a sacred debt of gratitude now long 
overdue. 

You, more than any class in the community, can 
appreciate the nobility of the project which this Com- 
mandery of the Loyal Legion is about to inaugurate. 

To the mothers who gave their sons, to the wives 

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who gave their husbands, to the sisters who gave their 
hiothors, to the women who became nurses, to those 
wlio in the privacy of their homes gave their earnings 
and the work of their hands, to one and all, let us erect 
this noble memorial and in payment of a long deferred 
debt, let our memorial be more beautiful than any 
memorial known to man. Let it stand for all that 
woman has been in American history ! 

Woman is the only order of nobility that we 
recognize in this democratic country. To her queenly 
office we willingly bow. An American woman first 
wove an American flag and gave it to the soldiers of 
the Republic. May there ever remain in the hearts 
of every true American the love of the knightly cava- 
lier for woman, and of this true chivalry of our people 
— greater and finer than the vaunted chivalry of the 
]Middle Ages — let the memorial which shall arise in 
lasting beauty in the Capital of our Nation be the 
mo.st lasting and beautiful expression ! 



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Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States 

COMMANDERY OF THE StATE OF NeW YoRK 

Headquarters, No. 140 Nassau Street, New York, N. Y. 
Telephone 4474 Beekman 



lejst l^e forget" 



9in ©pportunitg 

TO HELP TO BUILD 

91 iSattonal ifJflonument in tl)t Citg of ®!aa0i)ington 

TO THE MEMORY OF 

THE LOYAL WOMEN OF THE CIVIL WAR 

WHO SERVED IN THEIR HOMES, ON THE BATTLE-FIELDS, AND IN THE HOSPITALS 



TO ALL PATRIOTIC MEN AND WOMEN 

THIS project has lain dormant in the public conscience for fifty years awaiting 
some initiative to bring it to fruition. Every patriotic citizen of the Unitecl 
States should heartily approve the und ertaking ; and it follows that if each will express 
his, or her, approval by a contribution, however small, the necessary funds will be 
forthcoming, and the monument will be built to stand for all time a worthy symbol 
of the Nation's gratitude. 

This appeal for funds is national— to each and to every one ! 

Respectfully submitted, 

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS, 

Major-General Frederick D. Grant 

General Thomas H. Hubbard 

General J. Fred Pierson 

Major J. Langdon Ward 

Capt. James A. Scrymshr 

Lieut. Loyall Farragut 

Lieut. Thomas Sturgis 

Contributions may he forwarded to the Secretary and Treasurer 

A. Noel Blakeman, Recorder 

140 Nassau Street, New York City 
By check or postal money order 



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